Summary of the 1619 Project by Alexander Cooper

Author:Alexander Cooper [Alexander Cooper]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ben Business Group LLC
Published: 0101-10-15T00:00:00+00:00

"Our legal and political architecture has prioritized the safety and self-defense of white people above that of black people from the nation's beginning," argues historian Carol Anderson in her article "Self-Defense," one of the finest new contributions. Anderson unearths the history of the Second Amendment, emphasizing how it did not grant Black Americans the right to bear arms because "the enslaved were not considered citizens," and how it was widely understood that one of the amendment's "well-regulated militia's" purposes was to suppress Black uprisings. This chapter refers to another by historian Leslie Alexander and legal scholar Michelle Alexander, titled "Fear." They highlight how, following Reconstruction, local police units across the South "were frequently made up of former slave scouts and members of the Ku Klux Klan" who targeted Black individuals for "daring to behave as if they were free." The co-authors claim that the "kindling" for the enormous protests that the country experienced in 2020 had been set long before the police killing of George Floyd. "Nothing has proven to be more dangerous to our democracy, or to Black communities, than white dread of Black liberation fantasies."

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